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CHARACTERS

THOSE I’VE PLAYED

Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Caroline from The Vampire Diaries
Charlotte from Lost
Clay from Sons of Anarchy
Connor from Angel
Cordelia from Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ellen from Supernatural
Gallo from Pandorum
Lafayette from True Blood
Locke from Lost
Oz from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Phoebe from Charmed
Ruby from Supernatural
Sawyer from Lost
Shannon from Lost
Stefan from The Vampire Diaries
Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

THOSE I CAN PROBABLY PLAY

Angel from Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jack from Lost

THOSE I’D LIKE TO TRY

Dean from Supernatural
Meg from Supernatural
Nathan from One Tree Hill
Prue from Charmed
Reed from Criminal Minds

THOSE I HAVE IDEAS FOR

Gallo
Jack
Kate
Ruby
Sawyer
Shannon
Oz

STORIES

THE BITCH IS BACK

Universe: Supernatural
Characters Involved: Ruby, Sam, Dean, whoever else.
Idea: Ruby is resurrected mysteriously as a human. Her soul is intact along with her memories of her time as a demon. She is discovered by Sam. Shenanigans and WTFs ensue. I’d want to play Ruby. Could play Dean.

DUELING GALLOS

Universe: Pandorum
Characters Involved: Young Gallo, Old Gallo, Bower, whoever else.
Idea: After the events of the movie, Bower awakes once again in the Elysium, remembering everything that should have happened. Was it a dream, or was it real? As he travels the ship looking for answers he discovers a young man doing the same. He soon realizes this man is the same guy he dreamed about, only much younger. WTF is going on? I’d just love to see Bower and young Gallo having to work together. I’d want to play young Gallo. Could play old Gallo.

LOST… IN ITS OWN PLOTLINE

Universe: Lost
Characters Involved: Anyone
Idea: What if Jacob never touched the lives of any of the “candidates?” What if they lived entirely different lives off the island? How would their lives have changed? What relationships could they have had? Would they have to return to the island in this timeline as well? It’s sort of inspired by the flash-sideways world. I just thought all their storylines were so unfortunate. I’d love to see them in happier lives for a while.

SUB-PLOTS:

• Shannon meets Boone before her father meets Sabrina when the Carlyle family moves in next door. Come on, the only reason these two didn’t date was because their parents did it first.
  
• Sawyer’s a cop obsessively searching for the con-man who killed his parents. Maybe a bit too obsessively. Not sure where I’d go with it. I just loved the idea of him being a cop.
  
• Jack has a chance encounter with Ana-Lucia. Now what? I really wanted to see if they would’ve worked as a couple.
  
• What if Kate’s not a fugitive? No matter what universe we were looking at she was still a murderous wench. I’d love to try to do something else with her.

TABULA RASA

Universe: The Vampire Diaries
Characters Involved: Any
Idea: During some kind of random party (there’s always one) everyone is struck with amnesia. Could take place in either season with any assortment of characters. It’d be effing hilarious either way.

SONS VS SPN

Universe: Supernatural and Sons of Anarchy
Characters Involved: Sam, Dean, Jax, Clay, whoever else.
Idea: We’d have to talk about this and work it out. I’d just love to play Jax as a Special Child with some demon powers.

PARTY AT THE HYPERION:

Universe: Angel
Characters Involved: Connor, Angel, anyone else from Angel or Buffy
Idea: Pretty much everyone gets trapped in the Hyperion during a party and thrown into lots of different horror movie type scenarios. I just think it’d be hilarious.

OZ AND WILLOW

Universe: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters Involved: Oz, Willow, whoever
Idea: I just want them to get back together, damn it lol. Could be a fan-fic type of thing I write myself or if you want to try either Oz or Willow we can write something together.

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NEW PLOT IDEA

WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

Universe: Supernatural Meets Reality TV
Characters Involved: as many as we want
Idea: Paranormal Investigators from various reality TV shows all end up at the same location investigating and meet up with some characters from Supernatural.

NEW CHARACTERS

SHOWS INCLUDED:

• Supernatural/Ghostfacers
  
• Ghost Hunters/Ghost Hunters International
  
• Paranormal State
  
• Ghost Adventures
  
• Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

ALL CHARACTERS:

Supernatural/Ghostfacers

• Sam Winchester - Self-proclaimed Supernatural Hunter
  
• Dean Winchester - Self-proclaimed Supernatural Hunter
  
• Ellen Harvelle - Self-proclaimed Supernatural Hunter
  
• Jo Harvelle - Self-proclaimed Supernatural Hunter
  
• Ash - Paranormal Researcher
  
• Ed Zeddmore - Paranormal Investigator, founder of Ghostfacers
  
• Harry Spangler - Paranormal Investigator, founder of Ghostfacers
  
• Maggie Zeddmore - Paranormal Investigator, researcher
  
• Kenny Spruce - Paranormal Investigator, camera operator

Ghost Hunters/Ghost Hunters International

• Jason Hawes - Lead Paranormal Investigator, founder of TAPS
  
• Grant Wilson - Lead Paranormal Investigator, founder of TAPS
  
• Steve Gonsalves - Paranormal Investigator, tech. specialist
  
• Dave Tango - Paranormal Investigator
  
• Amy Bruni - Paranormal Investigator
  
• Adam Berry - Investigator-In-Training
  
• Barry Fitzgerald - Lead Paranormal Investigator
  
• Kris Williams - Paranormal Investigator
  
• Paul Bradford - Tech. Specialist
  
• Susan Slaughter - Case Manager, Investigator-In-Training
  
• Joe Chin - Paranormal Investigator
  
• Scott Tepperman - Paranormal Investigator

Paranormal State

• Ryan Buell - Lead Paranormal Investigator, founder of PRS, Director
  
• Sergey Poberezhny - Tech. Specialist
  
• Eilfie Music - Occult Specialist
  
• Katrina Weidman - Interviewer
  
• Michelle Belanger - Psychic
  
• Heather Taddy - Documentarian

Ghost Adventures

• Zak Bagans - Lead Paranormal Investigator
  
• Nick Groff - Paranormal Investigator, Camera Operator
  
• Aaron Goodwin - Paranormal Investigator, Tech. Specialist

Fact or Faked

• Ben Hensen - Lead Paranormal Investigator
  
• Jael de Pardo - Journalist
  
• Bill Murphy - Lead Scientist
  
• Austin Porter - Stunt Expert
  
• Chi-Lan Lieu - Photography Expert
  
• Devin Marble - Tech. Specialist

Note: I would like for there to be at least two people from each team in the plot to make it fairly well-rounded, as far as capturing the feel of each show. More than two is totally fine. Less than two, we might as well not include that show at all, since all these shows are based on a collection of people, not just one person.

CHARACTERS I COULD PLAY IN THIS PLOT:

• Sam Winchester - Supernatural/Ghostfacers
  
• Dean Winchester - Supernatural/Ghostfacers
  
• Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural/Ghostfacers
  
• Ash - Supernatural/Ghostfacers
  
• Ed Zeddmore - Supernatural/Ghosrfacers
  
• Harry Spangler - Supernatural/Ghostfacers
  
• Grant Wilson - Ghost Hunters/Ghost Hunters International
  
• Kris Williams - Ghost Hunters/Ghost Hunters International
  
• Ryan Buell - Paranormal State
  
• Michelle Belanger - Paranormal State
  
• Zak Bagans - Ghost Adventures
  
• Nick Groff - Ghost Adventures
  
• Aaron Goodwin - Ghost Adventures
  
• Austin Porter - Fact or Faked
  
• Chi-Lan Lieu - Fact or Faked
  
• Devin Marble - Fact or Faked

Note: This is a list of all the characters I feel I COULD comfortably play without much of an issue. I listed characters I want to play, characters I know I could play if I had to, and characters I know you could also play. The list is purely based on who I feel I could comfortably write.

CHARACTERS I WANT TO PLAY:

• Dean Winchester
  
• Ellen Harvelle
  
• Ed Zeddmore
  
• Kris Williams
  
• Ryan Buell
  
• Zak Bagans
  
• Austin Porter

Note: I picked the characters I feel most drawn to that I'm excited to write, but if you also want to give any of these a shot let me know and we can work something out. I also tried to pick one character from each team that jumped out for me while watching. I could play additional characters if needed. You can play whoever you want. You don't have to pick one person from each team if you're not comfortable playing anyone from a particular team. That's just how I did it because there were so many I felt comfortable to write.

OTHER NEEDED CHARACTERS:

I think it'd be helpful to have a few originals thrown in. Owners of the property the teams are investigating, witnesses, people to be interviewed, supposed "experts." Whatever we end up needing.

OTHER STUFF

We can decide on a location depending on who we decide to incorporate.

If there's a team or two we just don't want to play two of the people for we don't have to include them.

Uh... There's probably some other stuff I can't think of right now. If I think of anything else I'll add it.

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I could probably play:

Supernatural/Ghostfacers

*Sam
*Dean
*Jo
*Ash
*Ed
*Maggie
*Kenny - maybe?

Ghost Hunters/Ghost Hunters International

*Jason
*Grant
*Steve
*Dave
*Dustin (not listed)

Paranormal State

*Ryan
*Michelle
*Heather

Ghost Adventures

*Zak
*Nick
*Aaron - maybe?

Fact or Faked

*Ben
*Austin
*Devin

Characters I would like to play:

*Sam
*Jo
*Ghostfacers (It would be weird to have Ed without a Harry but I don't know if I can do Harry. I think I could do Ed, but I could take Maggie.)
*Grant
*Steve
*Ryan
*Zak (but I'll take Nick)
*Austin (but I'll take Ben or Devin)

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JEN

• Jo
  
• Sam
  
• Maggie
  
• Grant
  
• Steve
  
• Ben
  
• Austin
  
• Nick
  

NOEL

• Dean
  
• Ellen
  
• Ryan
  
• Ed
  
• Jason
  
• Kris
  
• Chi-Lan
  
• Zak
  

Harry and Aaron NPC’d by both?

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I currently have three or four fan-fic's I'm working on. However, I tend to start fan-fics and never finish them, so this is going to be my incentive. If I post them as I'm writing them here, maybe it'll poke me to finish them. I'm going to make a Creative Writing section where I'm going to post these, since they're just my stories rather than a back and forth. So, if you have stuff you want to post in there go for it.

I also might make a few character development type things and journal entries, but I'm not making my full on separate accounts yet, so for now I'm going to post them under this one. They're just exercises for me to get used to the characters I've never played, and I'd like your feedback on them before I make my accounts. For example, if I play Dean wrong, I'd like to know. Or, if I'm spot on with somebody I'd like to know that too.

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INCEPTION
multi-fandom idea

I've been toying with the idea of making a multi-fandom RP based at the core on Inception, meaning the world and its rules would be dictated by the movie. What I'm thinking is radical, but I think it would work.

The Idea:

The board would mainly focus on the Inception characters as they pop into the minds of various other canons from other fandoms.

At first, at least, in the board-wide, big-picture view of things, everyone else other than the core Inception characters would only be explored in relation to their dreams and these characters. So, it wouldn't matter what does or doesn't exist for, say, Sam, because he's only being seen and explored in the dream, which to him is real and can be whatever we need it to be for the plot. If he's fighting demons, it might be weird for say, DiCaprio's character, but he'd accept it because it's a dream... and because he's a bullshit artist, he'd probably pretend to be a demon hunter or some shit.

Maybe later I could bring in characters from other fandoms gradually, depending on how the RP goes. Maybe certain people could get picked to be a part of an extraction team because they have certain talents or something. So, they could end up getting explored in more ways than just the dreams. BUT, in order for that to work without the whole thing being a clusterfuck where we don't know how to mix all this stuff together... well, here's where the radical part comes in.

To make the mythology of the world itself as simple as possible, since the concept itself is so complicated - dreams within dreams, which world is real and all that - I would say that all the characters actually live in the humdrum real world, and that any supernatural type stuff actually happens in their dreams.

Take a second. Wrap your head around that.

Now, luckily, a lot of these shows already introduce this idea in certain episodes. There was an episode of Buffy where she thought she was in a mental institution and none of the slayer stuff was real, then she came back at the end, but in the other reality where she was in the hospital, they said they'd "lost" her.

In Angel there was the whole thing with Connor's second "normal" life where he was just a regular human, then he got pulled back in when supernatural stuff started bleeding into his life again.

In Supernatural there were a few "alternate reality" episodes they used, but for the purposes of explanation I'll use the one where they're Jared and Jensen, since it was the most "normal." There they were just two human guys and the supernatural world didn't exist.

Hopefully you get where I'm going here.

Basically, I would say that everybody, even the supernatural themed canons, exists in the real world with some sort of completely normal life, but in their dreams they hunt demons or vampires, or are demons and vampires. I get that this is radical but I think it will allow for additional character exploration there's NO WAY we could do in the confines of their fandoms. For example, you could explore, say, Katherine as a human who's only a wenchy vampire when she goes to sleep. But, similar to the way the movie works, both worlds would become just as real and matter just as much, so we wouldn't have to lose the feel of all the shows.

We'd have to do something like say each group of canons is some sort of team that share dreams in their real lives. I have some ideas for certain groups, so I'm going to discuss each fandom on its own then talk about how they could relate at the end.

Inception:

This would pick up from after the movie, with the team not all being under Cobb's thumb anymore - meaning they don't have to strictly do illegal, black market jobs because he's their leader and that's all he can do. He's doing his own thing, and they're all free to do whatever they choose. But, maybe they have to come together again for certain jobs, although I'd think for them to bring Cobb in it would have to be a big job, because I got the idea that he was out. So for him to get pulled in it would have to either be a job he couldn't turn down, or one of his buddies would have to really need his help. Maybe they do some things like training people to secure their subconscious or something. Basically, they're no longer rogue and under the table like they used to be... though they could be if it was an interesting enough case.

One Tree Hill:

I'm currently writing a fan fic for Inception meets One Tree Hill - I started there because I figured it'd be easy since they're all just normal. For something like this where it's a fandom with no or very little odd mythology (they do have some ghost stuff that happens with Nathan a few times), I would say that none of them have ever done any dream sharing and they're all just normal and have no idea this dream sharing stuff even exists. So for them to be brought in, someone would have to get hired to poke around in one of their minds. Or, someone would have to come recruit somebody.

Supernatural:

This is where it starts to get complicated, since Supernatural contains a bunch of stuff that wouldn't exist in the real world. So, for the purposes of this RP, I would say that all the stuff that happens in the show happened in various dream states and isn't "real." Also, we'd have to say at least Sam and Dean are dream sharing regularly. Anyone else could either also be dream sharing, or, since the other characters kind of pop in and out, we could say they come in for a reason. Like maybe they're also from other extraction teams and stuff. Someone like Ruby could've come in to plant an idea in Sam's head, then they killed her and she woke up. Things like that. We could figure it out case by case.

Those are just some examples. Not every character has to be like lost in a dream state. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm basically saying that the dream worlds exist alongside the real world. So when they're dreaming everything feels just as real as it would in real life, and it's not until someone wakes them up that they realize what was going on. And maybe we could pull in some supernatural stuff, like psychic abilities I could totally see existing in this world. Vampires, not so much.

Which brings us to supernatural creatures. I honestly don't know what to do with them. If we try to say they really do exist and are what they are, we're going to run into that problem where all the different mythologies contradict each other and we have to mash them together. So I personally, for the purposes of this RP, would like to say that in the real world everybody's a normal human. But maybe in their dreams they take on this persona of being a vampire or a demon or they're perceived that way by other people.

Also, each character would have a different type of subconscious if someone decided to pop into it, and also a different kind of dream space. What I got from the movie was that the dream sharing was very different then hopping into someone's private dream.

For example, when Cobb is training Ariadne, he's actually entering her dream - she's designed the world they're in. But, he's the one actually experiencing the dream as she's controlling it, and his subconscious populates the world she created. When they're sharing a dream as a group, it seems like the person who builds the dream also has their subconscious in it, and when the other people visit that dream it seems like they all come in alone... except Cobb, who always brings Mal. I'm not totally clear on that though. But then when Cobb's dreaming just by himself and Ariadne jumps in, she's just placing herself directly in the dream space he's built with his subconscious, which is why it's so dangerous for her to be there - she has no control and neither does he.

Actually, I just thought of something. I think when people dream share they're supposed to come in alone without their subconscious. I think the only one who brings it in is Cobb because his subconscious and conscious mind are blending together along with real life and dream life.

Hmm. I'll have to rewatch and pay attention to when they're explaining things. Maybe take notes. I also consider Cobb an unreliable teacher because I think he was telling Ariadne some false stuff to get her to do what he wanted her to. If I had to pick an explanation if Cobb's and Arthur's contradict each other (which I think they do) I'd pick Arthur's.

Basically, what I was trying to get at before I got all confused and lost, was that each character would have a different type of subconscious and a different style of dream space. Somebody like Jax Teller is sort of on high alert and defensive about some stuff in real life, right? But, he's never dream shared and knows nothing about it, so his subconscious wouldn't be as defensive as Cobb's or Fischer's. And I think his dream space would be relatively stable because he doesn't have any mental issues that would show themselves right off the bat like Cobb. However, if he started getting people poking around in his head all the time, or he started getting involved in extraction and stuff, his subconscious would change and he might get more unstable, because he does have some deep seeded issues that, if they're poked at, won't be good.

Then if you take someone like Angel, let's say that he's human in real life for the purposes of this example. But in his dream sharing persona he's this vampire with a soul fighting evil. This is the world his mind has created. BUT, he also has Angelus, who even in the show is this psycho part of himself - an alternate personality - he's shoved to the back of his subconscious. So, whoever hopped into Angel's head would get attacked by Angelus, I would think, and I'd think Angelus would come with him wherever he went. He'd be a little like Mal for Cobb, I think.

I think we could have a lot of fun with this, even if we just sit here writing fanfic about it. I think we'd have to just base it in the real world, then figure out what to do with individual characters as we want to bring them in. I'm really not a fan of the idea of incorporating supernatural for real in this universe, meaning saying that vampires and shit exist in the waking world. I just think it would make it way too complicated, where it's already extremely complicated all on its own. I think it would be much simpler and much easier to say all the supernatural stuff the way it's shown in the shows and stuff only exists that way in dreams of certain dreamers, and is all a metaphor for other things - the minds way of dealing with stuff or whatever.